Brethren in Christ Church Malawi

02/06/2023

As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him.

Psalms 103:13

23/11/2022

Meet Jonathan Owen!

Jonathan is the Missions Project Coordinator for BIC U.S. World Missions. He has been involved in the work of World Missions since 2012, when he, his wife Becky, and their two children began nine years of missionary service in Malawi. He taught at the Evangelical Bible College of Malawi in Blantyre, and supported the work of the Malawi BIC church. He also supported the college's IT needs.

After returning to the U.S. in 2021, he began to serve as the Missions Project Coordinator. In this role, he is developing an online education platform for equipping people for ministry service and revising the system for managing international leadership training grants. He especially enjoys mentoring men in the Missionary Development Program.

Jonathan is passionate about God’s work around the world, especially the kind of transformative discipleship that reaches both the mind and heart. Although the past year has been full of transitions, he has found joy in teaching adult Sunday School and assisting with the Youth Group at Grantham BIC where he attends. In his spare time, he enjoys attending concerts and plays.

01/11/2022

18/07/2022

"Sometimes once, sometimes twice, depending on the availability of food." - Ndiuzani Butao, Malawi
In late January, the rains and winds of Tropical Cyclone Ana swept through Chikwawa, Malawi — taking with them Ndiuzani Butao’s plans for a better harvest.

As a lead farmer in an MCC-supported project, 22-year-old Butao was embracing new lessons in conservation agriculture, hoping they would provide more food for her elderly grandmother, her 1-year-old daughter Hanna Danela and her teenage brother.

It was one way that she and her family could work to withstand the more erratic rainfall and frequent flooding that climate change has brought to this region of Malawi.

Instead of harvesting, though, she’s grappling with the aftermath of a cyclone that took all but one dwelling on her homestead, forcing her brother to move in with a friend. It destroyed clothes, bedding, schoolbooks and kitchen utensils — as well as stored food and chickens.

A field where the family had planted cotton, maize, sorghum, millet and cowpeas was washed away. Pests came to the region, nibbling what crops remained. Her family was worried that if flooding continues, they may have to move to another area.

Butao’s challenge was more immediate.

How could she, as the breadwinner, earn enough to feed her daughter and her grandmother?

In the weeks after the storm, she worked for others and was paid mostly in flour. Asked how many times the family had meals per day, she answered: “Sometimes once, sometimes twice, depending on the availability of food.”

MCC is providing food assistance to 500 of the most-affected families in the region for two months, helping to nourish families for today — but unable to control what the weather may bring later this year or next.

(Ndiuzani Butao is a lead farmer in an MCC-supported project of the Brethren in Christ Compassionate Development Services in Chikwawa District, Malawi. MCC photo/Amanda Talstra)
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From Bolivia to Cambodia, the story is the same: Weather patterns are changing.

We care about climate change because we care about neighbours, here and across the world, all made in God's image.

May we open our hearts to their stories.

07/07/2022

May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace.

01/05/2022

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

14/01/2022

But he who joins himself to the Lord becomes spiritually one with him.

1 Corinthians 6 : 17

26/12/2021

A child is born to us! A son is given to us! And he will be our ruler. He will be called, "wonderful Counsellor" "Mighty God", "Eternal Father", "Prince of Peace".

Merry Christmas from Brethren in Christ Church Malawi.🎉

18/10/2021

10/10/2021

As the scripture says, "Everyone who calls out to the Lord for help will be saved." ♥️

12/09/2021

Whoever has the Son has this life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Iye wakukhala Ndi Mwana ali nao moyo; wosakhala Ndi Mwana wa Mulungu alibe moyo.

1 John 5:12